The idea of ‘<scp>C</scp>ountry’: Reframing post‐disaster recovery in <scp>I</scp>ndigenous <scp>T</scp>aiwan settings

Hsu, Minna; Howitt, Richard E.; Chieh, Chun

doi:10.1111/apv.12058

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“…In Australian Aboriginal discourse, this is the scale of 'Country', the scale at which cosmological relationships and processes intersect with human (and non-human) presences and responsibilities (Howitt 2002;Hsu et al 2014). This is the scale of human responsibility in an everyday sense.…”

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Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

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Section: Reframing the Invitation And Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

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Cajete³

et al. 2015

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“…While in Eurocentric ontology, entities such as water, forest and land are treated as 'objects' rather than 'agents', they are critical elements of common property resource governance which are understood in Tayal governance as embodying cosmological agency. So, rather than being simply a natural resource basic to sustenance of human societies, water is motivated by cosmologically framed agency (Hsu et al 2014). Water governance that is symbolic of a society's cosmology is not uncommon across the world (see also Singh 2006;Samakov and Berkes 2017).…”

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Reframing Indigenous water rights in ‘modern’ Taiwan: reflecting on Tayal experience of colonized common property

Chen

Suchet‐Pearson

Howitt

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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There is a widely accepted stereotype that Indigenous Taiwanese have lost their connection to country as a result of colonization and thus the Indigenous presence is often omitted in representations of 'modern' Taiwan. By asserting a modern/traditional binary that privileges the colonizer as modern these representations demean Indigenous cultures as 'primitive' or 'traditional'. This paper challenges those biased dichotomies by exploring the experience of Tayal people in northern Taiwan, drawing on both field and archival research to demonstrate the resistant and persistent Indigenous presence in common property resource governance, specifically water governance. The research found that Tayal systems for common property governance persist in the management of water. It also demonstrates that in those governance systems, non-human agencies such as water have active agency in Tayal culture. By recognizing water as actively engaged in the common property governance, the paper argues that governing common property in the Tayal context is about contemporary and adaptive governance relations among non-human and human agencies in a more-than-human world, as well as communally sharing the custodianship. It is misguided to understand these governance systems as primitive, traditional or inauthentic -all common representations within dominant Taiwanese discourses. The paper also argues that recognizing and engaging Tayal people's communal custodianship offers a Reframing Indigenous water rights in 'modern' Taiwan 379 foundation for building culturally appropriate, just and resilient common property governance frameworks in Taiwan's contested cultural landscapes.

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“…Studies focusing on Indigenous resilience adopted a somewhat narrow understanding by focusing primarily on coping or adaptation strategies, but transformative responses to climate change remain understudied. We could also not find any cross-country analyses (i.e., comparing Taiwan with another country), except for one study comparing Australia with Taiwan [65]. General studies on how Taiwan's Indigenous peoples have experienced or perceived global climate change are also lacking.…”

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“…In the previous section, we mention that the majority of studies focused on postdisaster recovery or the post-disaster setting. Many articles shared the lessons learned from Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot in a variety of contexts, ranging from the highly descriptive or technical [36] to the very critical [65]. Generally, Taiwan's approach to disaster management is somewhat top-down [39].…”

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Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

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In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

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The idea of ‘Country’: Reframing post‐disaster recovery in Indigenous Taiwan settings

Cited by 28 publications

References 29 publications

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Reframing Indigenous water rights in ‘modern’ Taiwan: reflecting on Tayal experience of colonized common property

Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

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